On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Stefan Hoelzner wrote: > Hi folks, > > surely this question has already been answered many times before in > this ng, but nevertheless: I want to pass variables from one .php to > another .php script. But I do not want to use either the > http://localhost/target.php?var1=test&var2=test2 nor the POST method. > I would like to pass over general variables like usernames and > passwords for several MySQL-connects; obviously it is not a good way > to pass these vars via the mentioned ways. > > What else does PHP offer? Are there any other methods? Can I define > these vars as some kind of "global variables" in any ini-file?
Use includes. http://www.php.net/include dbinfo.inc <?php $host = 'localhost'; $user = 'foo'; $pass = 'bar'; ... ?> showstuff.php <?php include 'dbinfo.inc'; if (!$conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass)) { ... ?> Ideally this include will be outside the document root. If not, make sure it's not viewable or use a php extension such as .php See also the include_path php directive. Regards, Philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
